Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Summary
Lament like a virgin girded with sackcloth for the husband of her youth.
The husband
Bible References
Lament
Joel 1:13
Gird yourselves, and lament, you priests: wail, you ministers of the altar: come, lie all night in sackcloth, you ministers of my God: for the grain offering and the drink offering is withheld from the house of your God.
Joel 2:12
Therefore also now, says the LORD, turn you even to me with all your heart, and with fasting, and with weeping, and with mourning:
Isaiah 22:12
And in that day did the Lord GOD of hosts call for weeping, and for mourning, and for baldness, and for girding with sackcloth:
Isaiah 24:7
The new wine mourns, the vine languishes, all the merry-hearted do sigh.
Isaiah 32:11
Tremble, you women that are at ease; be troubled, you complacent ones: strip yourselves, and make yourselves bare, and gird sackcloth upon your waists.
Jeremiah 9:17
Thus says the LORD of hosts, Consider you, and call for the mourning women, that they may come; and send for skillful women, that they may come:
James 4:8
Draw near to God, and he will draw near to you. Cleanse your hands, you sinners; and purify your hearts, you double-minded.
James 5:1
Come now, you rich men, weep and howl for your miseries that shall come upon you.
The husband
Proverbs 2:17
Who forsakes the companion of her youth, and forgets the covenant of her God.
Jeremiah 3:4
Will you not from this time cry unto me, My father, you are the guide of my youth?
Malachi 2:15
And did not he make them one? Yet had he the remnant of the spirit. And why one? That he might seek a godly offspring. Therefore take heed to your spirit, and let none deal treacherously against the wife of his youth.